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-Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip-
How is it possible that 13 episodes have aired and nobody has told me how AMAZING this show is. The acting ranges from pretty good to fucking brilliant. But the writing, Oh my, the writing is always brilliant. I had a revelation last night, watching my third episode in a row, that the show is smarter than I am. That Sorkin is a better writer than I am. And that says a lot. I think I'm brilliant.
I'm enjoying the episodes that Bravo showed in a recent marathon. I'm also DVRing new episodes. And rest assured, when the DVD set comes out, I'll pick that up too.
Fucking brilliant.
-Breathe Right Nasal Strips-
You know, the flesh-colored bandages that you sometimes see sleeping people wearing on their noses. The idea behind these little gems is that they remain flexible, but partly rigid, holding the nose more open. With the nose more open, you're more likely to breathe through the nose and not through the throat, which decreases your chances of snoring.
I snore. A lot. Joe says that when I hit a really big tear, it rattles the walls. I think that he's given to poetic exaggeration, but I do believe that I do snore. I've been using these nose strips for a week and a half now and we both have noticed improvments. Joe says that he hears me much less and when I do snore, it's just for a bit and then I quiet down. For my part, I notice that I sleep harder with these things on. Now that I'm not snoring as much, I'm waking up less in the night, which means deeper, harder sleeps.
It's crazy, but these things work. And for such a cheap cost (only 4.99 for a 20 strip pack), my sleep is dramatically improved. Who wouldn't want to get up on that?
-The Recent Plumbing Upgrades.-
For reasons that only Joe can explain to you, he neglected to ever ask for service for any of the myriad of plumbing traumas that our apartment suffered from.
The bathtub regularly gets clogged up.
There was a not insubstantial leak under the toilet which we used to capture in a largish bowl, dumping it back into the toilet, ever day or so. (Fresh water into the bowl. Not pee water. That would've been immediately intolerable.)
The kitchen sink leaked (also collected in a bucket).
The tap to the faucet had come off completely and we "made water" (tee hee) by adjusting the rod that the faucet handle used to go on.
Disasters all around. And Joe made no efforts to fix any of them, nor to request service on them. He said that the toilet had been like that for nearly two years.
Last week, I got sick of all of those plumbing problems and requested a visit from the plumber. I scheduled it for this Monday. A day that I knew that I had off.
It took our plumber almost 4 hours, but he fixed everything but the bathtub. (Which I forgot to mention to him.)
The toilet doesn't leak anymore.
The sink's cup was cracked and has been replaced entirely.
The sinks faucet was also replaced entirely.
By the time that he left, the only thing that wasn't fixed was the Frequently Clogging Bathtub.
And I accidentally fixed that, this morning.
Tired of standing in two inches of bathwater, I grabbed the plunger and worked it over. Imagine my surprise when on the third plunge, a blue, shampoo bottle top came free from the drain and hopped up into the tub. Immediately thereafter, the entire tub drained with a whoosh. This damned shampoo top has been down there the whole time and now it's out. With it's removal, the last plumbing annoyance (for now) in the apartment was ended and normality was restored.
I am looking forward to tomorrow's shower.
-Jamba Juice's Fresh-Squeezed Orange Juice-Why have I been buying those damned smoothies, when this joint offers fresh-squeezed orange juice on a small bed of crushed ice?
I love fresh-squeezed OJ. Love it. Always have. So, discovering a joint where I can get one, whenever I want, is a huge boon.
Granted, a large one is over 4 bucks. So, this will be an infrequent indulgence. Still, it's nice to make the discovery.
-HBO's Carnivale- A friend of mine and I are working through this series together. I'd forgotten how good the show was/is. And how carefully and slowly the show doles out the mythology. we're currently three episodes into the first season. So there are still miles ahead of us, yet to travel. This will be a pleasure.
-The Ricky Gervais Podcasts-
If you see me sitting quietly on the train, headphones on and I'm giggling quietly to myself, it's probably because I'm listening to the Ricky Gervais podcasts on my ipod.
Good Christ, but they're funny!
The ones that I've listened to are basically Steven Merchant and Gervais endlessly harassing the unbelievable Karl Pilkington. Truthfully, Pilkington is the lead of the show and Gervais and Merchant hang back and listen to the parade of inane thoughts that Pilkington lets fly. I can't recall them here. You'll have to listen to get an idea of what I'm talking about. But I love the show.
The first three seasons are available in the Itunes store, for 6.99 per season. I think that each season equals 12 hours. Absolutely worth it.
(You can also search for "Ricky Gervais" in the podcasts and get three "Podfather" podcasts that are meant to be an introduction to the show. They are, of course, free of charge. Check them out. They'll give you an idea of whether the podcasts match your humor preferences or not, without spending any cash. (They absolutely killed me. Completely won me over.)
Some people say that it is the collection of either all the small pleasures or all the small annoyances that form the overall tapestry of our lives. Right now, these particular little things are a pleasure and I wanted to share them with you. Maybe you'll check one or some of them out and they'll enrich your tapestry, as well.
Cheers,
Mr.B
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